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Current News: Moon taps top national security adviser to lead delegation to North

After the successful Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, South Korea is up to another significant challenge. The doors for an inter-Korean talks has finally opened. Yesterday, March 4, 2018, President Moon has already named his special envoy to North Korea. Check out this article by The Korea Herald

National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon, and Moon’s top national security adviser Chung Eui-yong. (Yonhap)/ Via The Korea Herald

“On Sunday, Moon named National Security Council chief Chung Eui-yong as his special envoy to North Korea. Chung is to lead a five-member delegation that leaves for Pyongyang on a two-day schedule Monday. Along with Chung, Suh Hoon, chief of the National Intelligence Service, Vice Minister of Unification Chun Hae-sung, senior National Intelligence Service Director Kim Sang-gyun, and Yun Kun-young, a Cheong Wa Dae official, are to visit the North as part of the delegation. The high-level officials are also to be accompanied by five working-level officials, Cheong Wa Dae said. “The special envoy delegation will stay in Pyongyang for two days, and hold discussions on establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula and improving inter-Korean relations with high-level North Korean officials,” said Yoon Young-chan, senior secretary for public relations. According to Yoon, the South Korean delegation is to leave for North Korean on a chartered flight that is to take the West Sea route into North Korea.”